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Like them, Yana was added to the register of those "inclined to extremism and destructive activity".

“We understand completely that people are anxious to get back onto their property,” said Yana Garcia, California Environmental Protection Agency secretary.

Yana Valachovic, a fire scientist at the University of California, said some of the spared houses were tucked away from prevailing wind currents so that embers didn’t hit them.

They say "Yana" - who has been named after the river basin where she was discovered - is the world's best-preserved mammoth carcass.

Yana speaks the best Korean in her class - but she and most of her 22 classmates are native Russian speakers.